Does anyone else.....

Jill

Jill

Sugar Cookie : GingerScraps Praise Team
...find it hard to call a LO "done"?

I'm asking because I am working on a page I started two days ago and I am having so much fun, I don't want to put it to bed. It is up to about its sixth "iteration" and I still want to keep fiddling with it. I even got up at 2 am this morning after Id thought of something else to try then couldn't go back to sleep until I had gotten up to try out the new idea. I think it is done now.....maybe......or perhaps I should just tweak it a bit more......
 
Not me, but I can kind of see your perspective. I used to be that way, years ago, but for some reason now I'm not. It'll be interesting to hear others' perspectives.
 
Time factors probably play a big role, as well as commitments on CTs and deadlines. Im on my own now, getting along in more years than I care to think about (but my body keeps reminding me:(), I'm not on any CTs, I'm retired, the grandkids are all grown so the babysitting days are long gone and I have too many hours to fill in a day. Although I have to admit, even way back when I first started scrapping, I still took forever to complete a LO for the same reason...I don't want the fun to end. Im always sad when I finish a good book too:)

...and I just thought I would add.....I am STILL tweaking that LO :)
 
Sometimes a page can come together quickly and other times I have to let them sit awhile for me to come back to them.
I am finding that I prefer more simple pages with not many embellishments. I like Pocket style for my Project Life ( P52) pages and they come together quickly even if I do not use a template.
 
I love simple and minimalistic too Anne-Marie but somehow I just can't stop adding things. It is the tweaking and fussing and fiddling that I enjoy I think. Ive decided to embrace fiddling as a "technique" and just run with it:)...however I would love to get better at arty pages, white space style, use brushes and blending to better advantage, so that my pages look less like paper style. Not that I have anything against paper style, I love it.... in fact recently I spent hours and hours trying to make something look like it was made with paper (that booklet LO, you remember?)
 
I can relate to you. Sometimes a layout comes together in a flash but at times I sit with it for 2-3 days. Tweaking away until I am satisfied. That's why I don't always enter all the challenges, just don't finish the LO's in time. I would love to play around with brushes, filters and blend modes a lot more but time does not always permit.
 
I started out yrs ago as a minimalist (clean) scrapper and slowly started building more layers and adding clusters/brushes/overlays, etc and somewhere along the way I morphed into more of a "fill up the page" kind of scrapper. So, yes, I can relate. My brain just wants to keep adding more and more to clusters and paper stacks but I try to pull back now and stop myself (not always easy lol). I like to vary my designs so am trying to find a balance of different styles and if I can stop myself, I am enjoying doing some "cleaner" pages again. I almost always finish up a page with buttons, sequins, etc....small things....and have to stop myself or I'll just sprinkle them all over the place (yes, I have a button problem lol). So, for sure, I have to tell myself that not every page needs a ton of buttons or every element from a kit :)
 
Lynnie, thank you but your LOs are ALWAYS superb!! They are WAY classier than mine and you do so much more work on the pics themselves..mine are SOTC mostly. (but I love your praise:) )

bcgal00 said:
I started out yrs ago as a minimalist (clean) scrapper and slowly started building more layers and adding clusters/brushes/overlays, etc and somewhere along the way I morphed into more of a "fill up the page" kind of scrapper. So, yes, I can relate. My brain just wants to keep adding more and more to clusters and paper stacks but I try to pull back now and stop myself (not always easy lol). I like to vary my designs so am trying to find a balance of different styles and if I can stop myself, I am enjoying doing some "cleaner" pages again. I almost always finish up a page with buttons, sequins, etc....small things....and have to stop myself or I'll just sprinkle them all over the place (yes, I have a button problem lol). So, for sure, I have to tell myself that not every page needs a ton of buttons or every element from a kit :)
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Sometimes when I complete a page, depending on the design, I will select all layers together except the background one then make the whole lot smaller with the transform tool or move it all up down or across or angle it. That mostly gives the page some "breathing space" around the edges. I like buttons too...also scatters, strings, brackets, flowers, leaves, ribbons, bows, stitches, beads...…

Edit......lace, ricrac, arrows, themed ellies, butterflies, torn edges...….
 
Jill said:
Lynnie, thank you but your LOs are ALWAYS superb!! They are WAY classier than mine and you do so much more work on the pics themselves..mine are SOTC mostly. (but I love your praise:) )



Sometimes when I complete a page, depending on the design, I will select all layers together except the background one then make the whole lot smaller with the transform tool or move it all up down or across or angle it. That mostly gives the page some "breathing space" around the edges. I like buttons too...also scatters, strings, brackets, flowers, leaves, ribbons, bows, stitches, beads...…

Edit......lace, ricrac, arrows, themed ellies, butterflies, torn edges...….
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I love all the bits and bobs,too!
 
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